Modders have spent years trimming Nintendo Wii motherboards down to the absolute minimum so they fit inside handheld shells that resemble the original Game Boy. Xenii refined that approach across earlier Xii-Boy versions until the latest Ultra revision arrived as a fully modular kit. Tito from Macho Nacho Productions assembled one, and the result sits […]
A YouTube creator who goes by patchzy has spent months turning the 2008 Wii classic into a proper Windows program. The project is called Mario Kart Wiicompiled, and the first public beta arrives in August. This is the first time anyone has statically recompiled a full Wii game for modern computers. Static recompilation takes the […]
A compact computing device from 2007 has found an unexpected new role in the world of retro gaming consoles. The Samsung Q1 UMPC, originally sold as a Windows XP powered ultra mobile PC, recently starred in an experiment to replicate the functionality of Nintendo’s Wii U GamePad. Its small footprint and built in screen made […]